If you’d like to choose one of our seasonal shades or another colour from our palette, we’ll sand it back, prime it, and re-paint it with as many coats as your chosen shade needs. To repaint the exterior, our paint service costs €120.

A closer look at Chichester

Our Chichester coffee table is classic and timeless; its enduring style, to us, embodies the best of English design. It’s made using tried-and-tested, proper joinery techniques, from a combination of natural, tactile oak and perfectly-painted tulipwood, with pared-back detailing. And its rectangular size is easy to incorporate into most seating arrangements.

The materials

Chichester’s base is made of tulipwood, a hardwood with a fine, knot-free grain that makes a smooth surface for paint. We use a mixture of spray-painted and hand-painted techniques, so the finish is as perfect and robust as can be. The top’s oak, which we use for its beautiful grain, knots and variations in tone. It’s protected with our IsoGuard® treatment oil in Natural Oak, which guards against marks without masking its character.

Where we see it

Chichester’s simplicity is great in relaxed living rooms, but it would also fit well into an open-plan kitchen, if you’ve added some seating space here.

Design detail

Quite a few of our coffee tables, like Chichester, have a lower shelf. It’s useful whether you want to keep the top clear, or use it as a place for bigger things like throws. On this table, it’s simply decorated with V-grooves, so it looks good when left bare, too.

Just so you know

The colours in our paint palette shown here are a close representation of their true shades, but to see the real thing, we suggest trying our sample paint pots.

This piece is made from natural timber, which will expand (slightly) and shrink (just a little) as it responds to the humidity and temperature in your room. We’ve used joinery techniques that’ll help to counteract this, but small changes in your piece are completely natural and to be expected. Just know that, in the very unlikely event that there’s a significant change to the structure, we’ll be here to help.

Taking care of Chichester

We’ve put together a series of guides on how best to take care of our pieces, so you can keep them looking as good as the day you first brought them home.

If you’ve bought something from us outside the UK or Ireland, just get in touch with the store you bought it from – or with our international team if you bought it through them – and they’ll let you know how you can return or exchange it.